UK Double Deck Specialist Celebrates Queen’s Award Win
6th July 2018
Transport logistics business Transdek UK has celebrated its recent Queen’s Award win in an official presentation ceremony at their HQ in Harworth, Doncaster. The ceremony was attended by two Lord-Lieutenants from South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, who act as HM The Queen’s representative in official Queen’s Award ceremonies. During the ceremony, Transdek CEO Mark Adams received a crystal rose bowl bearing the Queen’s Award emblem.
Announced in April of this year, the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise celebrate outstanding achievement by UK businesses across four different categories. Transdek won the prestigious award in the Innovation category for their pioneering Wedge Trailer. It is the third time Transdek have won this award.
All 55 Transdek staff attended the ceremony, alongside some of the business’s loyal customers, including Boots, Eddie Stobart and John Lewis.
Commenting on today’s events, company founder and CEO Mark Adams said: “We are all exceptionally proud of our third Queen’s Award win. It’s been a huge team effort to develop our pioneering Wedge trailer, so it’s great to celebrate this achievement today with all of our staff and customers.”
“Our business has always been leading from the front in terms of research and development, and the Wedge trailer is one of our most innovative products to date. It enables our customers to generate up to 25% additional load volume and up to 7 tonnes of additional load weight capacity. To give context to those figures, if all UK trucks and single deck lorries converted to the Wedge, this could save over 2.5 billion miles per year – the equivalent of removing more than 1 in every 7 HGV’s from the UK’s roads.”